Walk into a drug store anywhere in the nation and you can play that old game, “What’s Wrong With This Picture?”

Along with the aspirins, cold formulas, weight-loss products, personal hygiene products and pharmacist health care professional behind the counter are shelves filled with cigarette packs.

It took executives at one major drug store chain — CVS — to figure it out but when they finally did, they concluded that cigarettes don’t belong in a place that promotes good health.

So beginning in October, the butts will be yanked off CVS shelves.

And for that, we say good.

Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg must have been wearing a very wide grin when he heard the news. It was Mr. Bloomberg, in the face of intense criticism, who forced a smoking ban in bars and restaurants across New York City.

“Disaster!” screamed the owners. “We’ll be out of business.

We are now in the 11th year of the ban and restaurants in New York have never had it better.

There is no disputing that the broad prohibition on smoking has made a big dent in the popularity of cigarettes, especially on tobacco-prone Staten Island.

In the past decade, the rate of smoking in our borough has plunged by about half — from 27.2 percent to 13.5 percent. But it’s estimated that 2,000 high school students in our borough still smoke.

It’s estimated that the restrictions on smoking have prevented 10,000 premature deaths among New Yorkers. The original city ban a decade ago made smoke-free virtually all establishments and businesses with employees, including restaurants and bars, theaters, health and day-care facilities, shopping centers, retail stores, sports arenas, public transportation facilities and other locations. These rules were eventually followed by laws extending smoke-free protections to hospital grounds, and last year, to parks, beaches and pedestrian plazas. The number of bars and restaurants in the city rose nearly 50 percent between 2002 and 2011. Today, their sales are at an all-time high. CVS estimates it will lose about $2 billion in annual revenue nationwide. That is a huge number and is testament to CVS’s commitment to good health. But we also assume that CVS did not get as successful as it is by making business decisions without much research and analysis.

In other words, they know what they’re doing and aren’t about to put themselves out of business.

No matter the business reasons CVS might have had, the company has to be applauded for making a gutsy move in the name of good health that will certainly send customers elsewhere.